7 Dec 1982
WONG CHUN-LEUNG v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- WONG CHUN-LEUNG v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC733/1982
The conviction was unsafe because the trial judge materially relied on an inadmissible police statement of the prosecution's principal witness treated as hostile; that misdirection could have coloured the judge's assessment of the admissible confessional statement and rendered the trial unfair, requiring quashing of conviction and sentence.